2022 Human Rights Essay Contest Winners

Monday, May 9, 2022

ISHR congratulates the winners of the 2022 Human Rights Essay Contest

Undergraduate Winners

Abigail Kleiman (top left)

Barnard College, Human Rights Major 
"SIDS, Territorial Loss, and Notions of Statehood Under International Law: Reparative Approaches"
Jera White (top right)
Columbia College, Human Rights Major 
"Genocide: New Understandings of an Age-Old Horror"
Graduate Winners
Sydney Smith (bottom left)
HRSMA
"The Essentializing Nature of the Weapon of War Framework: An ICTR Case Study"
Varsha Vijayakumar (bottom right)
HRSMA
"Human Rights Should Begin at Home: An Argument for Classifying Domestic Violence as Torture Under the UNCAT"